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Plain text of A Song of Praise for the City of Urim (Nanna C)

Segment A

1-10 O eastern house of Sumer, I will declare your greatness! O E-kic-nujal, whose purification rites are brilliant, o house of prayer! O shrine Urim, I shall glorify your name. Emerging from the holy heart of the pure hills, Urim, city of wisdom, appropriate for E-temen-ni-guru! By God's leave you bestow kingship; your majesty ...... the foreign lands. I shall glorify your name far and wide!

11-22 He keeps in order the lordly purification rites ....... He has taken his seat ...... in Urim. Your name is sweet! Your holy word is pleasing. May my En-hedu-ana excel. ...... the purification rites of the jipar. ...... the excellent jipar. .......

Segment B

1-10 ...... who is familiar with your purification rites, ......, may he do ....... ...... shall build for you in the pure abode ....... ...... shall not enter ....... He shall grind your barley for you in the pure cloister. Your milled grain is not laid in the ....... Water shall not touch what you have ground. Any of your men who are familiar with the palace .......

11-17 To bring offerings in baskets, to cause rejoicing, to make the house comfortable, to establish the house, to put in order the place of the holy purification rites -- may God, my En-hedu-ana, restore your ....... ...... O God, I shall praise You. ...... I shall glorify Your name.